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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4: From the Deserts They Come.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How do the Aboriginal people sleep?
(a) In shelters made from branches and bark.
(b) In small mud huts.
(c) In brick houses.
(d) In widened-out rabbit burrows.

2. How much land had Captain Fremantle already claimed?
(a) One million square miles.
(b) Five acres.
(c) One hundred miles.
(d) One hundred thousand acres.

3. What animal does Arthur Carberry bring to Australia with him?
(a) Mice.
(b) Lions.
(c) Horses.
(d) Foxes.

4. What does Captain Fremantle want?
(a) He wants their permission to name the area.
(b) He wants to teach them about white men and their society.
(c) He wants them to bring him and his men some food.
(d) He wants them to put some clothes on.

5. How do they justify this?
(a) The spirits of the ancestors told them to.
(b) The white people are evil.
(c) They will die if they do not.
(d) The food should be shared.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do Yalbung and Beeboo see when they investigate the noise?

2. What nationality is Captain Fremantle?

3. What were the new settlers advised to do?

4. What do Bidgup and Meedo decide to do about the food problem?

5. What does Dora show the children how to make?

(see the answer key)

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